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When Justin Bieber was six, and less than a decade away from becoming the world's first major YouTube success story, a 17-year-old from Southampton was taking over the global pop charts. That teenager was Craig David.

Fast-forward 16 years, and Bieber, like David, has lived his adolescence in the public eye. After scandal and arrest, the 21-year-old Canadian has come back with a remorseful a wildly successful album, Purpose, tracks from which have dominated the UK Top 40 to such an extent that he made a public plea for the NHS Choir to win Christmas Number One over his own track, Love Yourself.

David, meanwhile, has weathered the turbulent seas of Bo Selecta parodies and tumbling album sales, and, with the assistance of Bieber's generation, become a shining example of how pop has-beens can rejuvenate their careers through a combination of Instagram wisdom and nostalgia for UK Garage.

A photo posted by Craig David (@craigdavid) on Aug 12, 2015 at 1:35am PDT

Last year, David released a remix of his debut solo single, Fill Me In, with Bieber's Where Are U Now. But it took a BBC 1Xtra Live Lounge session to truly bring Bieber and David's worlds together, but now they have collided, we can all finally understand the meaning of David's debut album title: Born to Do It.

Because David's cover of Bieber's Love Yourself is a marvel, and, as is the way in 2016, has sparked mass excitement online – even from Bieber himself:

' @justinbieber my pleasure bro. Song is great. Now for a new CD/JB song for 2016 🔥🔥🔥